FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE
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Hunting
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Metal and stone tools and weapons
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Farming
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Transportation and Construction
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Detailed explanation-1: -"The findings conclusively demonstrate that Native Americans in eastern North America impacted their environment well before the arrival of Europeans. Through their agricultural practices, Native Americans increased soil erosion and sediment yields to the Delaware River basin."
Detailed explanation-2: -European colonization of the Americas had a major impact on Native American culture through what is known as the Columbian exchange.
Detailed explanation-3: -While epidemic disease was by far the leading cause of the population decline of the American indigenous peoples after 1492, there were other contributing factors, all of them related to European contact and colonization. One of these factors was warfare.
Detailed explanation-4: -The invention of pottery, plant cultivation, mound building, and trade appear first during the Archaic Period in Illinois, but they become much more important and more advanced during the Woodland period. In contrast, the bow and arrow were invented during the Woodland period.